Deadpool‘s Ryan Reynolds stars as the world’s top protection agent, tasked with keeping the world’s most wanted hitman (Samuel L. Jackson, The Hateful Eight) safe while delivering him from England to The Hague, in the new trailer for The Hitman’s Bodyguard (available to view below).

After years on the opposite ends of a bullet, the two leads must come together for 24 hours, while evading the murderous advances of a trigger-happy dictator (Gary Oldman, Child 44), in the Patrick Hughes (The Expendables 3) directed action/comedy, which co-stars Salma Hayek (Desperado), Elodie Yung (Daredevil), Richard E. Grant (Logan), and Joaquin de Almeida (Desperado), and is due to be released on August 18th in both the U.S. and U.K.